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Porting Lemmings In 36 Hours 154

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday June 27, 2010 @11:26PM from the first-in-line dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Aaron Ardiri challenged himself to port his classic PalmOS version of Lemmings to the iPhone, Palm Pre, Mac, and Windows. The porting was done using his own dev environment, which creates native C versions of the game. He liveblogged the whole thing, and finished after only 36 hours with an iPhone version and a Palm Pre version awaiting submission, and free versions for Windows and Mac available on his site."

Microsoft Demos Three Platforms Running the Same Game 196

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 07, 2010 @01:24PM from the pick-up-and-play dept.

suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Engadget: "Microsoft's Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Studio as a singular project (with 90% shared code) that plays on Windows with a keyboard, a Windows Phone 7 Series prototype device with accelerometer and touch controls, and the Xbox 360 with the Xbox gamepad. Interestingly, not only is the development cross-platform friendly, but the game itself (a simple Indiana Jones platformer was demoed) saves its place and lets you resume from that spot on whichever platform you happen to pick up."

After 2 Years of Development, LTSP 5.2 Is Out 79

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 21, 2010 @06:22PM from the terminal-velocity dept.

The Linux Terminal Server Project has for years been simplifying the task of time-sharing a Linux system by means of X terminals (including repurposed low-end PCs). Now, stgraber writes "After almost two years or work and 994 commits later made by only 14 contributors, the LTSP team is proud to announce that the Linux Terminal Server Project released LTSP 5.2 on Wednesday the 17th of February. As the LTSP team wanted this release to be some kind of a reference point in LTSP's history, LDM (LTSP Display Manager) 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 were released on the same day. Packages for LTSP 5.2, LDM 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 are already in Ubuntu Lucid and a backport for Karmic is available. For other distributions, packages should be available very soon. And the upstream code is, as always, available on Launchpad."

Comment Re:This beta should be...fun? (Score 1) 182

by LarryHappens on Thursday February 11, 2010 @07:05PM (#31106698) Attached to: <em>StarCraft II</em> Beta To Begin This Month

Agreed, COD6 has no private servers. Made me buy it for xbox because I saw no advantage to the pc version. Anyway the only people that still play pc games generally are really hard core and most play competitively or played competitively at one point. Why water down the pc games to make them more like console games makes no sense. I guess it doesn't matter, a lan mod will be developed FAST.

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